In an alternate 21st century Solar System, Earth learns that we have neighbors too intelligent, too nosy, and too near to ignore...

How do twenty-first century humans react when we confront comparable intelligence living in "our" solar system? Microbiologist Tandra Grey finds new hope for an ailing Earth and a new vision of her own future when she makes first contact. The 2014 revision of Cary Neeper's 1975 classic A Place Beyond Man—even more relevant today.

What does it take to secure a stable, equitable way of life, across generations? Tandra's mixed-species family leaves a struggling Earth for the ancient sustainable world of Varok, but their hopes are threatened when a genius with a hidden talent sets her eye on Varok's wealth—and Tandra's soul mates.

Raised on the Jovian moon Varok, Shawne longs to return to Earth and help her devastated home planet build a new civilization—one that can thrive for millennia. When she and her “mini alien invasion” set up a school in California, they face unexpected lessons of their own, unaware of the long-term consequences of their collision with life on Earth.

Only two decades after first contact, even Earth's people know of Haralahn, the great-fish spiritual leader on distant Ellason. Shawne Oran-ElConn-Grey determines to seek his guidance, as she struggles to tame a haunting disillusionment that followed her home from Earth. Her quest for meaning draws everyone she loves away to the Kuiper Belt and into a genetic mystery on the watery home planet of the ellls. The fourth novel in Cary Neeper's Archives of Varok, An Alien’s Quest completes the story of Shawne and her mixed-species family as they search for answers in Ellason's wild seas.